credit: pierre holtz
Center for UN Constitutional Research - October 2018
Between 1991 and 2002, the Sierra Leone civil war left approximately 70,000 people dead, hundreds of thousands mutilated and displaced over half of the population of five million. The country’s history, culture and political and social environments combined with the complexities of natural resources and economic issues ignited and propagated the conflict. This paper analyzes Sierra Leone’s independence and the roots of the conflict, child soldiers and atrocities, intervention and peace settlement, post-conflict events, DDR and its failures and persistent issues. The aim of this research is to investigate the severity of events and violent acts along with how society functions today that can provide pertinent information on Sierra Leone’s stability and what threats to security may currently exist or are likely to occur.
